Subtopics: Why were women often an ‘issue’ or ‘problem’ for nationalism? What role(s) did women play in anti-colonial struggles? Are feminism and anti-colonialism nationalism complementary, or contradictory? *Note: this is not the topic or essay question, this is a subtopic. Main theme is: Why and how did the ‘woman question’ loom large in anti-colonial thought? focus on a historical/national case : EGYPT READINGS: Deniz Kandiyoti, “Identity and its Discontents: Women and the Nation”, in Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman (eds), Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, Harverster Wheatsheaf 1993. Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel (eds), Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. Lewis Gordon et al (eds), Fanon: A Critical Reader, Wiley-Blackwell 1996 (chapters in Part IV). Nigel Gibson, Frantz Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination, Polity 2003 (ch. 5). Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan,. Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression, New York: Plenum Press, 1985 (reprinted 2007), ch. 7. Deniz Kandiyoti (ed), Women, Islam and the State, Palgrave Macmillan 1991. Lila Abu-Lughod (ed), Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, Princeton University Press 1998. Margot Badran, Feminists, Islam and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt, Princeton University Press 1995. Beth Baron, The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society and the Press, Yale UP 1994. Beth Baron, Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender and Politics, Berkeley: University of California Press 2005. Parvin Paidar, Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran, CUP 1995. Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate, Yale UP 1993. Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar (eds), Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2008 Tanika Sarkar, Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001, Kumari Jayawardena, The White Woman’s Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia during British Colonial Rule, Routledge 1995 Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915, University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Antoinette Burton (ed), Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities, Routledge 1999. K. Gabriel, “Close Encounters of an Imperial Kind: Gandhi, Gender, and Anti-colonialism”, Gender, Sexuality and Feminism Journal. 1:1 (2013), pp. 53–65. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms, Rowman & Littlefield 1997. Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, Cambridge UP 1996. Sanjay Seth, Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India, Duke UP, 2007, chapter 5. Madhu Kishwar, “Gandhi and Women’s Role in the Struggle for Swaraj”, in Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (ed), Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader, New Delhi: OUP 2009. Philippa Levine (ed.), Gender and empire, OUP 2007 (new edition). Anne McClintock, “Family Feuds: Gender, Nationalism and the Family”, Feminist Review. 44 (Summer 1993). Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, Routledge 1995. Madhu Dubey, “The ‘True Lie’ of the Nation: Fanon and Feminism”, differences, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1998) pp. 1–29. *Fanon, “Algeria Unveiled”, in his A Dying Colonialism, Monthly Review Press, 1965, pp. 35-67. *Sanjay Seth, “Nationalism, Modernity and the ‘Woman Question’ in India and China”, Journal of Asian Studies, 72:2 (May 2013). *Partha Chatterjee, “The Nationalist Resolution of the Women’s Question”, in Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (eds), Recasting Women, Rutgers University Press, 1990 [this also appears, with some variations, as a chapter in Chatterjee’s The Nation and its Fragments].
Milestone 1: Data Collection Work with your dissertation chair to
Milestone 1: Data Collection Work with your dissertation chair to determine any specific instructions or guidance that he or she may have for you about your topic selection development document. During the previous dissertation course, you designed your research and defended your dissertation proposal. Now it is time to execute
